An Ice Core Reveals The Economic Health Of The Roman Empire

NICHOLAS WADE, NY Times: Science
Mon, 05/14/2018 - 1:47pm

Lead pollution embedded in a Greenland glacier recorded peak periods of wealth as well as crises, like the Cyprian plague.

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